‘Pact of silence’ on Guantánamo’s future

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President Obama has been accused of tacitly conspiring with the Republicans to
keep the Guantánamo Bay detention centre out of the presidential election
campaign.

As Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed architect of the 9/11 attacks,
appears before a military commission in Guantánamo today, the question of
the camp’s future is noticeably absent from the political agenda.

“There’s a tacit agreement between President Obama and the Republicans about
the inevitability of Guantánamo remaining open, and the absence of a debate
shows this is the case,” Anthony Romero, the executive director of the
American Civil Liberties Union, said.

Mr Romero makes frequent

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President Obama pledged to close the detention centre but it still has 166 inmates and is absent from election debates

October 15 2012 Times Photographer, Peter Nicholls

President Obama pledged to close the detention centre but it still has 166 inmates and is absent from election debates